Anti-Semitism: Myth and Hate from Antiquity to the Present

Anti-Semitism: Myth and Hate from Antiquity to the Present
ISBN-10
0312165617
ISBN-13
9780312165611
Series
Anti-Semitism
Category
History
Pages
309
Language
English
Published
2002-12-20
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Authors
Marvin Perry, Frederick M. Schweitzer

Description

Citing a rise in anti-Semitic beliefs since the September 11 attacks, an analysis of centuries of misperceptions about Judaism explores such themes as Jewish people as the murderers of Christ, the "myth" of the Holocaust, and Jews as capitalists and communists.

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